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https://ijie.journals.ekb.eg/?_action=export&rf=summon&issue=21858
International Journal of Internet Education
1687-6482
1687-6482
2020
19
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AN EVALUATION OF WEB-BASED EDUCATION: LEADING TRENDS TOWARDS E-LEARNING & IT’S EFFECTS
Samreen
kazi
Lachhman
Das
Web-based education is a technology that plays an important role in modern education and training. Its great importance lies in the fact that it makes learning content readily available at any place at any time. Until recently, many educational journals have debated the issue of the “virtual university” as one of application areas of web-based education. As technology is improving and evolving, such “virtuality” becomes a reality. The forecasts are that, in the not too distant future, it will be possible for courses to be completed solely by the use of the World Wide Web or Internet . The main contention of this paper is that technology undoubtedly will offer many benefits for the learner, however, the pitfalls need careful consideration in adoption of web-based education at various levels of study.
E-learning
Computer-Assisted Instruction
virtual university
E-education
Web-based Education
2020
07
01
1
4
https://ijie.journals.ekb.eg/article_148709_46558192c19680a33750c7e3cf39d061.pdf
International Journal of Internet Education
1687-6482
1687-6482
2020
19
1
Teaching Reading and Writing through a Web-Based Communicative Medium: Weblog
Jafar
Arani
With the advent of push-button publishing in the field of ICT, in the shape of weblog, language teachers now have a new way to entice students to communicate through their reading and writing. Web blogging started fairly in 1990, and refers to websites that are continuously updated (Blood,2000). According to Richardson (2004) language teachers can subscribe to their students linguistic abilities especially in writing and readingThis paper discusses how weblogs develop writing, reading and communication skills. The positive and negative potential of weblog for language teacher is discussed, the use of weblogs in a writing class for non-native English speakers in the second year of university study is demonstrated and the feedback from these students is considered. This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 40 non-native English speakers of upper-intermediate level. They were university students in two classes at the Kashan University of Medical Sciences. At the end of the course, but before they had received their final grades, the students were given two questionnaires (multiple-choice and explanatory) to assess the effectiveness of this assignment.The vast majority of students preferred English writing the weblog to the more traditional ways. Most of them believed that weblog can improve English and a few of them said that they would definitely continue using wblog. The findings seem to confirm that despite generally having no prior experience of web design, most of the students enjoyed the assignment, believed that it was helping the improvement of their English and that it assisted them in producing good work.Blog assisted language learning (BALL) not only provides teachers with an exciting new way to approach communicative language learning, it also, despite facing challenges, gives the students a new reason to enjoy reading and writing.
Blog Assisted language learning (BALL)
teaching English as a foreign language
reading
writing
I CT
Weblog
2020
07
01
5
15
https://ijie.journals.ekb.eg/article_148711_13cd036f2e69e1acb685daaf2eab6f8e.pdf
International Journal of Internet Education
1687-6482
1687-6482
2020
19
1
Learning in Namibia: an opportune solution or an impediment to learning? – The case at the University of Namibia
Tulimevava
Mufeti
Access to education is among the many challenges that African countries face. According to a Report of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty First Century to UNESCO, many African countries are unable to provide access to primary education for all, let alone secondary and tertiary education. Many promote technology-facilitated learning, also known as eLearning, as an antidote to the access problem. This paper describes the author’s personal experience and analysis of eLearning in a Computer Literacy distance education course at the University of Namibia. Specifically, the paper attempts to establish whether the use of eLearning improved or hindered access to education. The paper concludes that, while eLearning clearly has a potential to eradicate problems associated with access to education, it is at the moment, not an appropriate solution in the Namibian context, as eLearning in itself generated more exclusion problems that made education beyond reach. Although the results found are based on observations that were made for a single course at the University of Namibia, they can help us understand some of the factors that can hinder the success of eLearning in other courses and higher education institutions in similar settings.
eLearning in Africa
opportune solution
impediment to learning
access to education
2020
07
01
16
22
https://ijie.journals.ekb.eg/article_148712_ab8b1fe153ecce771ff92735c8412987.pdf